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World Bank endorses Google Map Maker, brokers access to resultant data(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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by nosignal 15y ago
I've just watched two of them (8: Data Structures from SICP & Graph Algorithms from Algorithms) and enjoyed them. The format of the videos is nothing special (camcorder on a tripod at the back of the room), but the teachers are very goo
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by nosignal 15y ago
It seems most videos are available on Google Video if you (like me) had forgotten that RealPlayer even existed: http://www.google.com/search?q=Arsdigita&tbo=p&tbm=v... (Allegedly VLC can play RealPlayer, but it wasn't working for
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ArsDigita University: Lectures & courseware from intensive MIT CS program(aduni.org)
39 points by nosignal 15y ago|10 comments
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Java for Python Programmers(knuth.luther.edu)
2 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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Seeing Like a Database: The Problems with Big Data(jayoh.net)
4 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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First steps in data visualisation using d3.js(drewconway.com)
2 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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Data Science Toolkit: free-as-in-speech Natural Language Processing & Geo tools(datasciencetoolkit.org)
84 points by nosignal 15y ago|3 comments
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Visualising optimal target points in Darts (for different player skill levels)(datagenetics.com)
2 points by nosignal 15y ago|1 comments
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Spatial Data Analysis & Visualisation using R(spatialanalysis.co.uk)
3 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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by nosignal 15y ago
In this specific course, not much. I personally had no maths education beyond year 12, and only what I'd picked up along the way while reading around the subject. All the maths you'll need to know is explained thoroughly enough in the lectu
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by nosignal 15y ago
Here are my notes (on github). Nowhere near as polished as this version, and probably reveals more about my process of understanding than machine learning itself, but if we're sharing: https://github.com/mechamoth/ml-class/blob/master/ML_N
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Pascal's Triangle in Haskell(neilmitchell.blogspot.com)
5 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (Datavis)(research.ibm.com)
1 points by nosignal 15y ago|0 comments
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by nosignal 15y ago
"What would prove my assumption (or idea) wrong?" It falls under experiment design, but it's a much more straightforward and easy to understand question. You can ask kids that question (they're quite good at it). Really helps narrow down av
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by nosignal 15y ago
I wonder about this. Apparently the letter we get at the end contains our ranking. I wonder what the distribution of scores would be; I'd assume there would be a small fraction of enrolments actually doing the exercises, a big spike at 100%
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by nosignal 15y ago
I wish I could +1 this more than once. This is exactly the point, to me. There's not really such a thing as "an AI job". There is application of AI techniques to existing problems. Those problems are already found riddled throughout every j
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by nosignal 15y ago
I think this is a brilliant idea and is already being implemented by many training organisations through kaggle.com's "kaggle in class" program: http://inclass.kaggle.com/ Using this system for ml-class (and presumably the forthcoming pgm
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by nosignal 15y ago
The post is a clever way to sell the Skeptics Stack Exchange site (and the referrer link in the Amazon link won't hurt either). Not that there's anything wrong with either of these things — the book sounds interesting and I wasn't aware of
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by nosignal 15y ago
I've recently (~3 months) started using emacs "full-time" for org-mode, text notetaking, Python, and Octave. Here is a (small) list of things I'm sure emacs can do: - Integrate with git; - Run my Python and/or Octave code inside emacs; - Pe
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by nosignal 15y ago
I'm doing the course as well and have been wanting to become more familiar with Clojure. I'd be very interested to see your implementations of the algorithms in a functional style. After the course is finished, I hope you consider putting u
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by nosignal 15y ago
I've gone through that from the opposite perspective. My SO works from home and sometimes when I'd have a sick day, or a public holiday or whatever I'd wander into the study and have a chat, or pop my head in to offer a cup of tea or someth
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by nosignal 15y ago
What's stopping these things from including a heart rate monitor as well? Do we just not have the sensors, or are they just not as cheap as a simple accelerometer? I'd be much more interested in the exercise tracking if it did something bes
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by nosignal 15y ago
I used it, and I just kept it on my side of the bed, it worked fine. I guess it depends on your mattress, but unless your partner is shifting around enough to wake you I'd say it'd be fine.
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by nosignal 15y ago
This is very interesting. I (yesterday, coincidentally) finished reading Masters of Doom, the book about id by David Kushner. While generally a good read, it had a very fanboyish tone towards both the Johns. It really portrayed Carmack as a
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by nosignal 15y ago
I think I'm going to steal this for my Python classes. I usually say "is" or "is now", but "gets" I think is a more adroit phrasing. Cheers.
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by nosignal 15y ago
Geo-grafitti isn't new, but it hasn't taken off either. I like the idea (especially in Melb!), but I agree it's difficult to make seamless. Seems like it could be ubiquitous with the right implementation. Can you make the app push-enabled,
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by nosignal 15y ago
I guess, to nitpick, he means "any currently existing, freely accessible POI databases which support arbitrary polygon selection". Eg. most services which support "geospatial queries" (Flickr, Yelp, etc) only support MBR or simple geometry
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by nosignal 15y ago
Nobody's going to make any money just by aggregating & providing access to data points. Geo isn't as hard as everyone thinks it is. PostGIS absolutely does intersects with arbitrary polygons, for example. Where people will make the mo
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by nosignal 15y ago
Hey, thanks for that. Makes perfect sense. I definitely had an "oh is that all?" reaction. I wish I could +1 you more than once for that, cheers! Now I get closures and bayesian reasoning, not bad for 2 days ;)

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